A Rational Analysis of the Selection Task I: Optimal Data Selection
Nick Chater, Mike Oaksford · 2004
INTRODUCTION The next four chapters present our core illustrative example of how a probabilistic approach may resolve some of the fundamental problems in the study of reasoning. We provide an account of Wason’s selection task, probably the most intensively studied task in the psychology of reasoning. In this task, people are asked to assess the relevance of possible classes of evidence to testing a hypothesis.